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Utkarsh
Asked: 2018-11-03 06:38:28 +0800 CST

Ubuntu login loop mv .Xauthority not working [duplicate]

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When I enter my username and password I am looped back to the login screen again. I went to the shell screen and mv .Xauthority . Xauthority.bak is not working as it is saying /bin:/usr/bin is not included in the path environment variable.

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  1. We don't have a lot of information to go on, but lets try this...

    • boot to the GRUB menu
    • choose Advanced Options
    • choose Recovery mode
    • choose Root access
    • at the # prompt, type:
      • sudo mount -o remount,rw / # remount the disk as rw
      • cd /home/bak/utkarsh # change directory
      • ls -al .*thority* # list some files

    You should see something like this...

    -rw------- 1 utkarsh utkarsh 407910 Nov  2 08:56 .ICEauthority
-rw------- 1 utkarsh utkarsh     58 Jun 23  2017 .Xauthority

    If it DOES NOT show -rw------- then...

    • sudo chmod 600 .*thority* # change file protection

    If it DOES SHOW root root then...

    • sudo chown utkarsh:utkarsh .*thority* # change file ownership

    Note: change utkarsh to your correct username

    • reboot # reboot the computer

    Reboot and see if you can log in.

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